Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion

Dr. Thomas McLoughlin:

The regulation will depend on what happens in the European Union. I hope the directive could be amended to allow for certain types of CRISPR classed technologies. I hope that can be done quickly and that it would be harmonised with the rest of the world, so grain coming in will be exported.

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